Black History Milestones: Timelines By MrProducerGotRizz 1619 Slavery comes to North America, 1619 1793 Rise of the Cotton Industry 1793 1831 Nat Turner’s Revolt, August 1831 1831 Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad, 1831 Mar 6, 1857 Dred Scott Case, March 6, 1857 Oct 16, 1859 John Brown's Raid, October 16, 1859 1861 Civil War and Emancipation, 1861 1865 The Post-Slavery South, 1865 1896 'Separate But Equal,' 1896 1900 Washington, Carver & Du Bois, 1900 1909 NAACP Founded, 1909 1916 Marcus Garvey and the UNIA, 1916 1920 Harlem Renaissance, 1920 1941 African Americans in WWII, 1941 1947 Jackie Robinson, 1947 May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, May 17, 1954 1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, December 1955 1955 Emmett Till, August 1955 1957 Central High School Integrated, September 1957 1958 Loving v. Virginia Ruling, 1958 1960 Sit-In Movement and Founding of SNCC, 1960 1961 CORE and Freedom Rides, May 1961 1962 Integration of Ole Miss, September 1962 1963 'I Have a Dream,' 1963 1963 Birmingham Church Bombed, 1963 1964 Freedom Summer and the 'Mississippi Burning' Murders, June 1964 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964, July 1964 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965, August 1965 1965 Malcolm X Shot to Death, February 1965 1965 Selma to Montgomery March, March 1965 1967 Rise of Black Power 1967 1968 Fair Housing Act, April 1968 Apr 4, 1968 MLK Assassinated, April 4, 1968 1972 Shirley Chisholm Runs for President, 1972 1978 The Bakke Decision and Affirmative Action, 1978 1984 Jesse Jackson Galvanizes Black Voters, 1984 1986 Oprah Winfrey Launches Syndicated Talk Show, 1986 1992 Los Angeles Riots, 1992 1995 Million Man March, 1995 2001 Colin Powell Becomes Secretary of State, 2001 2008 Barack Obama Becomes 44th US President, 2008 2020 The Black Lives Matter Movement 2020 2020 George Floyd Protests 2020 2021 Kamala Harris Becomes the First Woman and First Black US Vice President, 2021
